unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have a goal and if you believed you did just still so you'll recall. you with your. difficulties and you know that the changes that you were fighting for it's been good four hundred years is not an easy thing to change. those changes you have to be willing to pay. that price might be your life for that price has become is freedom three months after that interview was that he was sentenced to three years behind bars but according to a staunch keeping him in prison on the current charges is going to be increasingly difficult for the bahraini government. cartoonish form of despotism where he's been sentenced to three years imprisonment for a number of tweets relation to your personal stories the prime minister and so on

as well as organizing protests he even when he was imprisoned briefly released he did not resign to the same standard criticizing you for it's hard for the people with that much courage. you can't be cowed so i think it's long term prospects the court could amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community wakes up to abuses in bahrain there's little hope that maybe over jobs going to be tasting freedom any time soon. see london's ecuadorian embassy. is injured over two years of standoff between the saudi authorities and the opposition which wants to translate towards democracy and equality for the majority shia population. the monarchy still insists it's not discriminating against its own

people but human rights groups say that doesn't tally with how the unrest is being curbed let's take a closer look then at some of the figures put out by amnesty international since twenty eleven clashes between authorities and demonstrators have seen seventy two people killed on both sides the number of arrests made last year of those participating in rallies top of thousand adding to that at least eighty youngsters under eighteen are being held in our prisons that the tories for their torture interrogations yet the government's efforts are good towards improving its own image it recently spent over thirty two million dollars on public relations firms. and a man who worked closely with jim when he headed the bahrain center for human rights c says that even though being an activist in bahrain is obviously dangerous rajab followers are ready to take up his ban it. it now he's in jail and is to go get a buddy but i still wish him and behave and sending messages to the many people to think people are proud of him and for that we can't they cannot dish out this

silence to be able to buy it is thinking there are many here but i think it is even if they were yes maybe but i think it is and if there was a human i think give us would come it would just be god i think we have sixty. six activist behind but one of them getting so i think of what i mean by jupiter it can't get the money i think at least in the end by a destructive easy job you need to get their shit but it you like beheaded them to . even two years ago for example the second he had actually been here you don't have to go about the human rights situation in bahrain and then he was arrested don't you have his death i decoded it because it could take you to death body all right back to our top story now a live news event will take you to media briefing from the governor of massachusetts let's listen in later but it is important to focus remain indoors and not open the door. keep the doors locked and not open the door unless there is

a uniformed identified law enforcement officer on the other side of it requesting to come inside i think that's all i want to offer mr mayor thank you governor thank you all for the white house plan but your president. reform probably worth an. overture different from the very place where. i forgot most. of the drama. over there health of the doctor's office mark. felt the worker. living on her. own. her partner paul walker with regard to here over here from home for. her during our house but were in their care of their precious. public safety bureau i promise to make sure that the public safety is upon the person with the key to the public as want as we get the information so be patient but i may say as

a matter of course it wasn't where one city went to see or community or a city that's not a terrorist went over we're going to return to work our restaurants were to get through this we're a stronger city as we go forward thanks very much. i was the mayor of boston there are only are on just his life press conference in fact but just telling him to keep calm that as the one take continues tonight one thousand year old just said neither remains at large his brother died earlier on today in a shootout now on the way have we talk about the texas community still coming to terms with a devastating explosion at that massive fertilizer factory yes they were twelve bodies have been found.

i reckon cardiologist dr omar. claims that the war in iraq destroyed iraq's environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did doctor. puts to data that the number of pressed cancer cases has grown in the country from fifteen to thirty times cases of congenital heart disease have become fifteen times more frequent case of leukemia have increased thirty fold the doctor puts the blame on the weapons used in the one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and three invasions of iraq and which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poisonous substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and consider many places in iraq even some very far from the fighting to be contaminated naturally radiation is not racist and foreign soldiers in iraq are not immune usa today even published research results that found that depleted uranium was indeed in the lungs

and other organs of navy vets who filed for health compensation claims yeah you know saddam hussein seemed like a pretty bad guy but there are always ways to get around the confines of a dictatorship but there is no way to escape from radiation it is truly the present so where the divisions of iraq good for the iraqis well it doesn't seem to be doing too good for their physical health but that's just my opinion. hello again police say twelve bodies have been recovered from the site of wednesday's explosion about fertilizer plant in texas the total death toll from the tragedy remains unclear search and rescue teams are continuing their work with the fate of many missing people still. hundreds were injured when the devastating blast ripped through the small town of the west the moment in the reports from the scene

. several police departments from around texas cordoned off a large area around the fertilizer plant which exploded now i just came back from one of the local hospitals which admitted nearly one hundred people who were injured in the explosion overall we know that more than one hundred sixty people were hurt in the blast right now there have been come for unpaid teles however we haven't gotten a new casualty count recently given the fact that this is still a search and rescue mission we do speak to one woman earlier who was slightly wounded during the explosion she lived in the vicinity of the blast her family was ok but so many of her friends she did not know the whereabouts swayed about the kids my kids their friends live in those apartments those houses we don't know about them we don't know about some of the fathers or friends if so what happened

during school hours i mean it's still bad but if the kids were in school it was real close by so many first responders digging through the rubble this morning still hoping to find survivors in a neighborhood which has been described as a war zone i can tell you i was there i walked through the blast area i searched some houses massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same kind of exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. i know there was at least seventy five to fifty fifty to seventy five houses damaged there's a partner complex that has about fifty units in it that was completely. just skeleton standing investigation is still underway for the root cause meanwhile the police and firefighters are still searching the rubble near the fertilizer plant. wrong i'm going to walk you post on my story of course i'll be back in just by

twenty minutes time with the latest from boston as police search for the second bombing suspect plus the rest of world news as well between now and then we talked to a leading israeli journalist about the world of intelligence and south of the break . a clear image of iraq after a. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the roads full of dangerous. clear evidence from north to south. the root of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. talks e l r t. wealthy british style sign it's time to.

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commentators on security and intelligence affairs he also coauthored the book spies against armageddon inside israel's secret wars mr mehlman thank you very much for joining us here on all it's my pleasure thank you how involved are israeli spies inside iran iran is considered by the israeli government by these relieved religion as a high priority it's a number one priority and therefore there is a lot of intelligence involved there and the door there together information but when you see israeli spies doesn't mean this is early that is israelis. recruiting. and try to send its own spies is iran there are other means of collecting the information is whole behind the assassination of a brain scientist and also hacking into the radio and computer systems. well i i can't reveal sources so i would i would not i would not detail them but. it's

our understanding that israel was behind it it's based on some. logic that was a pretty identified with previous operations in other parts of the world it's part of the really intelligence in the submarine for addition in some rare cases carry if necessary assassination attempts and some other bits of information which i can i don't wish to detail the western world try to use diplomacy to prevent north korea from acquiring nuclear power but it didn't help do you think it's the same situation with iran well exactly this is the this is the point. iran wants nuclear weapons for various reasons. iran wants to be. to have a good morning in the region. nuclear weapons in the hands of a country means national bride scientific interest infrastructure or

technological development. but also it's it's a government for this survival of the region why because we see the north korean example north korea has developed nuclear weapons and we assume they have nuclear weapons they even tried it with three test although they give not sucks he did not succeed. because they were they know that if you have nuclear weapons. no one is messing up with you and this is the north korean. president and the iranians know it and they want to repeat it so yes diplomacy has failed with north korea but diplomacy is also failing with iran in your opinion do you think israel is trying to maneuver the united states to attack iran i wouldn't use the world

maneuvering israel wants america to attack iran as a last resort when if diplomacy fails and indeed failed so far even the sanctions on europe were keen and at the end of the day iran would not cave in to the pressure and would assemble limbaugh in such a case israel prefers that america would do the job not only because it's more convenient but above all because america has the capabilities. to inflict a major blow on iran's nuclear sites while israel capabilities are very very limited what do you think is going on behind the scenes during president obama's recent. as well who exactly was putting pressure on these have iran i would say that america simply or president obama in this case simply ask israel daunte do anything which would not be coordinated with the us in

other words don't take iran unless it is coordinated with guns don't surprise us could israel carry out an attack without a coordination i i don't believe that israel would take you run we wrote it in our book i have been writing it in my newspaper articles for the last five years when every here and there in the international media was saying this era is that crucially or next year is the crucial year i don't think israel will attack you run because the israeli capabilities are limited we can do it but the damage that we can inflict upon you run and its nuclear site is is very limited and if let's say the big question is. if israel attacks iran what would be the damage and if the damage would slow down the iranian nuclear program for one year or a year and a half and then they would rebuild it i don't think it's worth taking the risk

and there is a great risk involved in such an attack what the people difference between an israeli strike on iran today as opposed to the strikes israel carried out on syria in two thousand and seven and on iraq in the eighty's or it's a it's a huge difference it's a difference that can be compared to day and night the attack on syria was by was by surprise there was one target. the distance was very short you knew you did not need a lot of. weight to be carried in other words armaments to be care. israel was pretty confident that all our airplanes would return or safely while with iran it's the opposite the distances are longer or. israel does not have

enough airplanes to carry an effective attack on iran iran would certainly retaliate and maybe would drag israel into a prolonged a war of attrition at the same time though when it's all carried out those strikes it was very quiet about operations as you say they were surprised operations there's a lot of noise happening around a possible israeli strike on iran could that suggest that israelis are concerned that they might not in fact be able to carry out a successful strike that's the argument if you want to carry an operation new dawn talk and you don't talk to the this is the level that is really the specially netanyahu has been talking about it that's one reason why i don't think that israel would attack iran the former mossad leader madigan publicly said that he was against a strike on iran what does he favor instead they are saying that weak we should take more. or should being engaged in more covered

operations to try to slow down iranian nuclear sites but above all israel has to be in concert to be coronated with the united states and the international community and israel should not take the lead in the runnion case so their argument is if israel at this present the guns argument is that if israel attacks the damage and we limited iran would rebuild its nuclear capacity and would use these really take as a justification for building nuclear the nuclear site again the basically iran would say you see we need nuclear weapons because we were attacked. when you went to book did you have any censorship problems i asked because you you don't talk too much about kid on the mossad unit who was allegedly in charge of overseas operations why not well the book was written by. two of us by me i am an israeli

journalist by in american journalist so my chapters were were censored i submitted them to the censorship. as any israelis are obliged to and since my call with the reason america only did not have doing is not under the jurisdiction of these rays as you but i think we have a chapter and we are very proud of the chapter talking about the key don't you need to buy on it which is the spearhead of these really of the most in special operations just the my side get away with some of the top of asians because of these israeli censorship laws no it has nothing to do with it. what do you mean get away if this is is conducting an operation abroad in the operation is revealed. outside israel then the censorship does not have it we

cover that to cover their writing. international media can write about. the israeli operations as long as they are not they know about these really media on the other subjected to their censorship i have been trying to fight this censorship i sometimes say. are saying claiming that it's irrational it's not sensible. and it should be lifted we saw some of that recently with the whole episode of prison x where the israeli journalists were having to rely on foreign reporting to quote on what was happening inside here do you think that person eight. brought to the fore the shortcomings of the censorship laws in this country absolutely this is the example of prisoner x. the australian that committed suicide that was recruited by the mossad came to

israel made aliyah work for the mossad and eventually was arrested for betraying the country and while awaiting his trial he committed suicide this is a good case of how this censorship is working and how the censorship has failed they try day and the courts it's not only the censorship we have also a system of court again. in this case in the case of reason the gag order prevailed and because of the gag order we really journalists couldn't write about the case the law we knew about it i i tried to fight the gag order too badly i went to courts while the prison erik's was was still alive and i lost the case i was kicked out by the judges they said that the court order would remain intact but each shows the failure of the system because the only ones who did not

have the information about prison their acts were these really public what does that mean does that mean that they could be other people locked away he that we don't know about because of this whole censorship well you see one of the damage is that prisoner x. affair code is to israel i think is the image of israel as a free democratic society what is the relationship like between the american intelligence agency and the israelis is there a trust in the relationships or is there a lot of mistrust we exchange information with we share assessments sometimes we do joint operations in the field together with the americans but obviously the trust is not under a percent always the reason kind of a mistrust. because you don't share even with your best friend everything you you you possess have is also enemies ever managed to plant agents within the israeli government their series yes our history has

a lot of cases in which foreign agents were planted in our most sensitive and highly security institutions the intelligence community scientific is the tutor and so on. but. all in all i would say these are rare cases the general trend is that it is really a very difficult society to penetrate because it's there is a great sense of patriotism in this country it's a very old one genya society. if you want to spy on someone you can spy but is really war difficult to crack than other countries mr mehlman thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you.

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bombings denied links to chechen terrorism one of the men is dead and the others on the run off for a police shootout. were a huge manhunt is currently underway as locals are want to stay off the streets. details emerge about the suspects background the family moved to the u.s. about a decade ago after a year in dagestan in the north caucasus fugitives russian social network account contains links to islamic sites raising questions why the suspects didn't draw the attention of security services sooner. just joined us you're watching our team with me kevin owen it's nine pm here in moscow one in the afternoon in boston united states this friday.